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Final Cut Pro X Beyond the Basics, 2nd Edition

by Tom Wolsky

September 2017

Beginner

378 pages

9h 28m

English

Routledge

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What Is Editing?Why Do 1 Get to Write This Book?Who Should Read This Book?Where's the Media?
Optimizing Your Computer for FCPComing from Other ApplicationsA Look Around the ApplicationEditing ClipsSummary
PreferencesImportingRed RawSummary
Loading The MediaOrganizing MediaCollaboratingWorkspacesOrganizing ClipsKeywordsSmart CollectionsSummary

Loading the MediaLook Before You CutDynamic EditingContinuity EditingTrimmingSummary
Setting Up the ProjectRolesThe Split EditControlling LevelsPan SettingsEditing MusicTimeline IndexSynchronizing ClipsRecording AudioSummary
Setting Up the ProjectMaking the Multicam ClipEditing The Multicam ClipSummary
Setting Up the ProjectText StylesTitles3D Titles3D Titles in MotionCustom AnimationCompound TitlesStill ImagesSummary
Setting Up the MediaApplying an EffectVideo EffectsAudio EffectsRetimingStabilizationSummary
Color CorrectionSecondary CorrectionColor ContinuitySummary
Setting Up the ProjectTransformCropAnimationSplit ScreenMotion ControlMultilayer AnimationSummary
Setting Up the ProjectBlend ModesStencils and SilhouettesVideo In TextSummary
SharingWorking with CompressorArchivingSummary

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Chapter 9 Color Correction

Color Correction in FCP is an effect in the Color category of the Effects Browser.

In this chapter, we’ll continue to use the BB8 library, which we used in the preceding chapter, as well as the BB4 library with the scene from A Great Life. If you skipped to this chapter and haven’t done it already, you should download the material from the eResources section of the www.routledge.com/products/9781138735842 web page.

Before we get started, let’s make a new project to work with:

1. In the BB8 library, select the Color event and use Command-N to make a new project.
2. Name the project Color, and from the fix Keyword Collection in Color, select all the clips and append them into the Timeline. They will go into the project ...